What was your one bold call of the year that really worked? (1 Viewer)

[The Real Hipster Doofus]

Bold call that worked: Prior to the year, I had Calvin as the #1 WR in any format, dynasty and redraft. I took him over Andre and Larry in startups, and took him as the first WR off the board in redrafts. I projected 85/1400/13 TD's for Calvin this year. I will end up a little bit off on that on the yards and catches, but I am of the firm belief that if Stafford stays healthy he can hit those numbers pretty easily next season.

Bold call that flopped: Michael Bush would be a top 10 RB in 2010. I don't think I was alone on this call, although I think I was higher than most with him. It seemed like a no brainer at the time with a shaky McFadden and a shaky QB position that Bush would be relied on early and often. That early season injury hurt his chances but from the way McFadden has played I don't think it would have made a difference either way. He has had a few useful games, but on the whole this was a big miss for me. Especially considering in two leagues I took him right before another RB went off the board. That RB was Arian Foster.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Worked - Not much. This was my worst fantasy season ever. I guess the closest I'd come is believing that Roddy White could be the #1 WR.

Flopped - Traded away Arian Foster in dynasty. In a separate transaction acquired Larry Fitzgerald.

 

[Lobary]

My bold call proved the key to my domination across two leagues. Unlike many of the experts, I had Arian Foster rated as a no-doubt RB1. Where everyone else had guys like Mathews and Shonn Greene rated well above him, I knew to stay away from those guys and wait on my stud rb later. This move allowed me to take Aaron Rodgers in both leagues with the third overall pick, then follow that up with two receivers. I didn't start picking running backs until the fourth round and beyond.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

Starting Vincent F****** Jackson this week! MEOW!!!!!

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

Would add trading for Peyton Hillis in my main dynasty. It was early in the year, but would have traded almost anything to get him. Only had to give up Cooley...

 

[Summer Wheat]

Drafting Mike Vick when Kolb was already named the starter.

 

[todisco1]

Worked: drafting Peyton Hillis in the late rounds of my redraft on a hunch.

Blew up in my face: Drafting Larry Fitzgerald in the 1st with the belief that he would dominate with any QB.

 

[parrot]

Would rolling with Orton as my keeper and QB1 qualify for both?

 

[SouthJersey]

Tried to draft Romo, Gates and Hillis in every league.

Romo -- good before the injury...then really put my teams in a bind at the QB position

Gates -- awesome the 1st half of the year...carried my team some weeks. Really frustrating with his injuries now though.

Hillis -- homerun

Horrible call:

Trading for Randy Moss once he went to Minny

 

[Raiderfan32904]

My bold call is passing on Michael Bush in the 9th round, and waiting on Darren McFadden in the 11th round, and getting all sorts of crap from leaguemates. "Hold up, aren't you the Raiderfan? Shows how much you know about your own team LOLOL", they all laughed.

 

[Dought Man]

Good - Drafting both Nicks and Bowe in both of my money leagues in rounds 5 and 6.

Bad - Thinking Eli would be $$$ this year

Ugly - Running the Baltimore Defense out there every single week, only for them to blow up finally on my playoff bye week

 

[buck naked]

Good - drafting Hillis alot. Drafting 3 RB's early in alot of leagues to avoid all the RB committees.

Bad - drafting Dexter McCluster in every ppr league around 10th/11th round. I thought with a NE-cloned offense with a former NE QB and former NE Offensive Coordinator, McCluster would be another Welker.

 

[NeverEnough]

My bold call was moving Romo (Pre-Injury) for Flacco.

My dumb move was trading for Fitz thinking he would come on later in the season. Good thing I only gave up Knox. Also rivals my move not to pick up Vick off the WW when I had the chance.

 

[daveR]

Good call: Picking up Tamme on his bye week before he exploded.

Bad call: Keeping Cutler. You can't run the "chuck & duck" without an O-line.

 

[Easy Six]

Playing Lynch against Carolina (only week I started him all year) got me the #3 seed instead of the #5 seed in the playoffs.

Dropping Tim Hightower for Beanie Wells when Wells came back from injury didn't work out so well.

 

[bakes]

Worked: drafting Peyton Hillis in the late rounds of my redraft on a hunch.

Didn't get me to the playoffs but it wasn't his fault...

 

[BigDave]

Best Move

Drafted Turner and Charles as RB1 & RB2 -nice combo!

Worst Move:

Traded Vick before he was a starter for D'Angelo Williams

 

[Trizzler]

My bold call is passing on Michael Bush in the 9th round, and waiting on Darren McFadden in the 11th round, and getting all sorts of crap from leaguemates. "Hold up, aren't you the Raiderfan? Shows how much you know about your own team LOLOL", they all laughed.

Lol, similar situation for me. McFadden fell to the 15th round in my 10 team league draft (no joke)...in fact I thought I had mistakenly missed his name being called and so I hesitated before asking if he was still available. Everyone thought it was a waste of a pick no matter what round it was; Bush was going to be a top 15 RB this year. I also called Boldin the sleeper pick of the year and drafted him in the 4th round, so what goes around comes around.

 

[C-Bound]

Worked - Tampa Mike late

Tanked - Moss in the 1st

 

[Shutout]

-Picked up Arian Foster last year and believed in him. Saved my season. (good).

-Picked up Tamme when Clark went down and advised folks to do the same. (good).

-Traded away Dustin Keller for Jermichael Finley the week Finley went to IR. (good).

-I am now without Finley or Keller and play against Keller this week (could be good or bad).

-Knew when to sell (sit) Dwayne Bowe. Saved my playoff qualification. (good).

-Refused to believe in Hillis and McFadden. Could have had both for nothing. (Bad...really bad).

-Traded for VJAX a while back. (good). Didn't start him last night (bad).

 

[emge]

Started VJax over Roddy White in semifinals. That put me in the Championship game.

 

[njherdfan]

Worked: Took Arian Foster as my RB2, Got Dwayne Bowe for far less than most other good receivers (auction league), took a last-round flier on Brandon Lloyd.

Tanked: Drafted Kolb as my starting QB

 

[Lascelle]

Worked: Electing to hold off on drafting any of the big name WRs in all standard drafts to shore up until Rounds 5-6 where I pulled the trigger on Hakeem Nicks in all 5 of my leagues. Had Megatron reserved in a keeper league and grabbed Wayne in an auction league but otherwise Nicks was my top receiver. (Oh yeah, forgot about Austin... grabbed him in the 2nd 'cause I was waiting to draft Kolb in the 5th. Whoops there. But hey, it worked out 'cause I picked Vick up off waivers and traded a bunch of scrubs for Brady later on.)

Tanked: Buying into the pre-draft hype on both Ryan Mathews and Jahvid Best. Literally sunk my ship in the league with my co-workers that really mattered although it took ARod's injury and a frozen roster after Week 9 to finally do me in last weekend.

 

[brtdud7]

Worked: 1. Trading Kolb, Mathews, and Winslow in the preseason of a keeper league for Schaub, Forte, and Colston. 2. Tough for a 49ers homer, traded Gore and Vernon for Roddy Moreno and Gates in the preseason

Didn't work: Didn't pick up Orton when I had the chance, picked up VY instead. Got screwed out of Hillis and Foster on the WW.

 

[Insein]

Drafted Foster in the 4th and Bradshaw in the 7th (in 2 leagues). Going to finish with the 2nd most points in both league. Didn't make the playoffs in either because of record points against.

One monumental mistake was drafting Randy Moss in the 2nd round instead of Philip Rivers in my one league.

 

[delusional]

Not worked: Moss Greene Boldin Addai

Worked: Jennings Foster

 

[Ghost Rider]

I drafted Arian Foster earlier than where he was projected as going in two drafts, and I drafted him to be my number 1 RB in one of them (a league that I am likely going to win).

On the flip side, I had high hopes that Bernard Berrian would be a very good WR3 this year, but, uh, no. Oh well.

 

[nysportsfan]

Worked: Drafting Hillis in the 13th of a Phenoms league; busting the blind bidding bank on Vick as soon as Kolb went down

Tanked: Bush in round 8; skipping over Foster repeatedly in that same draft; drafting Moss in round 1 of that above Phenoms league

 

[Skyryder222]

Bold call that worked: Prior to the year, I had Calvin as the #1 WR in any format, dynasty and redraft. I took him over Andre and Larry in startups, and took him as the first WR off the board in redrafts. I projected 85/1400/13 TD's for Calvin this year. I will end up a little bit off on that on the yards and catches, but I am of the firm belief that if Stafford stays healthy he can hit those numbers pretty easily next season. Bold call that flopped: Michael Bush would be a top 10 RB in 2010. I don't think I was alone on this call, although I think I was higher than most with him. It seemed like a no brainer at the time with a shaky McFadden and a shaky QB position that Bush would be relied on early and often. That early season injury hurt his chances but from the way McFadden has played I don't think it would have made a difference either way. He has had a few useful games, but on the whole this was a big miss for me. Especially considering in two leagues I took him right before another RB went off the board. That RB was Arian Foster.

Good move: Foster at 3.1 Bad Deangelo at 1.12

 

[Crusaderfan]

Good move : McFadden and Nicks

Bad Moves : Fitzgerald, Marshall, and S. Smith (CAR). 3 top WR's with no QB that can get them the ball.

 

[Sweet Love]

Good move: Securing Hillis (via draft or WW) in all 3 of my leagues

Bad move: drafted good players, but I am bottom 2 in 2 of my leagues in "Coaching ability" (i.e. I rarely start the righ guys).

 

[stp-d]

Bold

Hillis 15.01 - Keeper

Bryant 7.02 - Keeper (Not so bold but I'm an Eagles fan so it was a bold 1st step)

Gore, believing he was 2nd only to Peterson pre-draft



Stupid

Matthews 1.2 - Keeper league

Buying into all the Chicago WR pre-draft hype

Gore, owning him in almost every league with no real solution to fill the void.

 

[Instinctive]

Worked: Draft strategy of top WRs, then a top TE, then QB, then shotgun the RBs. Got me Roddy and AJ, and I had Roddy pegged as the #1 WR before the season. Finley was great til injury, then grabbed Tamme and Pettigrew. RB targets of Bradshaw, Foster, McFadden were all golden (too bad Foster and McFadden each went a pick or two before me in the rounds I had them targeted as "early")

Didn't work: The QB I picked to blow up was Kolb. Boy did that not work for me. Lucky to pick up Vick, but traded for Orton when he got hurt...

 

[fatmnkypants]

Starting VJax this week in the playoffs was my best call. Starting VJax in his 1st game back and getting a big fat 0, costing me a 1st round bye was my 1st........ the beauty of Fantasy football.